Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Liegende, 1911/12, Kastanienholz, lasiert, 69,5 x 25 x 17 cm, Skulpturensammlung, Staatliche
Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Photo: Hans-Peter Klut, Dresden, © Dr. Wolfgang & Ingeborg Henze-Ketterer, Wichtrach/Bern 2008.
Marc Chagall, Le Cheval rouge, 1937-1943, Gouache on paper, 50,5 x 50 cm, Private Collection, Paris, Photo: J. Hyde, Paris, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2008. |
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Museum Frieder Burda
Lichtentaler Allee 8 b
Baden-Baden
+ 49 (0) 72 21 / 3 98 98-0
Sculpture by Painters – Painting in Dialogue with Plastic Art
July 5-October 26, 2008
Sculpture by Painters – Painting in Dialogue with Plastic Art puts the emphasis on the dialogue between painting and sculpture. It includes approximately 150 20th century art works by Degas, Miro, Picasso, Modigliani, Giacometti, Chagall, Kirchner, Beckmann and Baselitz.
A direct juxtaposition of paintings and sculptures is planned. Also on show are works by Willem De Kooning, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Jean Dubuffet, Antoni Tapies and Max Ernst. All together more than 20 internationally renowned artists are exhibited.
Curator Jean-Louis Prat says, “The 20th century is rich in artists, who have been painters as well as sculptors - great creative minds, painters actually, who used their sculptural experiences to live a new adventure. The discovery of space made many of them quit, at least for a certain time, the color and bi-dimensionality of painting. By combining traditional and reinvented materials, they created sculptures to express their own sensitivity and temperament. They attributed increased importance to the concept of idea. From that moment on, sculpture was becoming real.”
Prat, an internationally esteemed expert on sculpture, was director of the renowned Maeght Foundation in St-Paul de Vence in France for over 30 years. In 2006, he curated the extraordinary Chagall retrospective at the Frieder Burda Museum in Baden-Baden, which attracted more than 190 000 visitors.
Numerous internationally renowned collections and museums, mostly from France, Switzerland and Germany, but also from the United States and Spain, are contributing to this major exhibition.
Artists included in the exhibition are: Georg Baselitz, Max Beckmann, Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Honoré Daumier, Edgar Degas, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Paul Gauguin, Alberto Giacometti, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Yves Klein, Willem de Kooning, Markus Lüpertz, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Amedeo Modigliani, A. R. Penck, Pablo Picasso, Antoni Tàpies, Cy Twombly. |
